Connect a Million Minds 2012 Robotics Invitational
Read about the CAMM Competition in ThisWeek News!
Read about the CAMM 2011 Competition in ThisWeek News!
http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/marysville/stories/2011/07/02/mhs-robotics-team-part-of-runner-up-alliance.html
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ThisWeek News – Grandview Heights:
http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/grandview/stories/2011/06/29/ghhs-first-team-takes-robot-to-summer-tournament.html
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http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/video/twn.html?videoUrl=/sites/thisweeknews/videos/2011/06/30/robot-competition.xml
Watch the CAMM Competition!
Watch the CAMM 2011 competition on LiveStream.com!
Mission and Vision
Mission and Vision
The mission of the Central Ohio Robotics Initiative (CORI) is to create a scalable and sustainable FIRST Robotics League and a regional FIRST Robotics competition in central Ohio, so that all interested students can grow their STEM skills and talent.
Through a growing partnership of schools, teams, businesses and philanthropic organizations, we use FIRST Robotics to inspire students to explore science, technology, engineering and math in college and their professions increasing the likelihood that central Ohio businesses will have a technically talented workforce in the future.
We encourage local universities and businesses to engage directly with the students by providing mentors for their projects, thereby increasing the likelihood that students will attend those universities and work in those businesses.
CORI Rookie Team Grant Application
CORI Rookie Team Grant Application
We want to help your team get started! We are also able to help teams with registration, organization and training of both students and mentors, and this year have some funding reserved to rookie teams.
The Central Ohio Robotics Initiative (CORI) is able to offer Rookie high school FIRST Robotic Teams an opportunity to apply for supplemental funding.
Deadline – Applications must be received by 5:00pm EST, November 30, 2011
The 2010 COSI-CORI-Connect a Million Minds Robotics Invitational “Mentor of the Year” Award
This award celebrates one selected mentor from a team participating in the 2010 ORI. Each team may nominate one individual for this award. Nominations should be a one page typed or two page hand written essay describing the mentor’s activities to help his/her team grow within itself and to help the FIRST community. Nominations should be brought to the competition and placed in the “Mentor of the Year” Box. Judging will be done by a select group of FIRST Alumni. Nominations should have the nominee’s name, team number, and team name in the footer.
Teachers Credit Robotics Competition For Rising Test Scores.
The Wilmington (NC) Star News (11/22, Greene) reported that fifth-graders at Rachel Freeman Elementary School in North Carolina have “been building and programming” LEGO robots “for the past two weeks” and on Friday, they raced their creations at the LEGO Mindstorms Challenge. “The competition incorporates a lot of the science and math in the fifth grade curriculum such as measuring the course to see how many wheel rotations it would take to finish the course and concepts such as force, friction, gravity and momentum.” Freeman Elementary teachers and administrators credit the competition, “along with emphasizing problem-solving, hands-on science, and four curriculum-based field trips each year,” with helping “boost the fifth grade N.C. end-of-grade science test scores a whopping 37 points last year.”
Students Participate In Robotics Competitions. The Worcester (MA) Telegram & Gazette (11/22, Spencer) reports, “Sixty-three teams of middle-school students ages 9 to 14 came from across Massachusetts to Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School on Saturday to compete in the 11th annual FIRST LEGO League Competition.” In addition to building robots “to perform tasks related to this year’s biomedical-engineering theme,” the students “also presented to judges a biomedical problem and proposed solution. And they were rated for how well they demonstrated ‘core values’ such as teamwork and gracious professionalism.” The article noted that Bancroft School of Worcester’s Uber Bulldogs “won first place for topic presentation, drawing from the school’s recent eighth-grade play, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,’ to portray the relationship between sugar and diabetes.”
The Connellsville (PA) Daily Courier (11/22, Schmadel) reported, “The fourth annual VEX Robotics Contest took place Saturday at California University of Pennsylvania with teams from 27 high schools competing. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh provided software and helped with the competition.” Teams from Connellsville Area and Frazier high schools participated in the competition, and “one Connellsville team took home a championship trophy.” The competition was organized by Cal U robotics professor Mike Amrhein, who “said the tournament has grown continuously and was quite large this year. He encouraged the high school students to consider Cal U for continuing robotics education through the National Center for Robotics Engineering and Technology Education at the university.”
